Statistics Quotes - Page 8

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

I bathe in statistics.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.